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RE: Re: What's Santa going to bring you?


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: RE: Re: What's Santa going to bring you?
  • From: Quinten Uijldert <quinten.uijldert@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:19:00 GMT
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We (as in the Dutch) don't consider them being part of Belgium ;)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Powell [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday 27 September 2001 12:11
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: What's Santa going to bring you?
>
>
>
> Ahem - Not in the French speaking part it's not!
>
> Mon hovercraft est plein d'anguilles
>
> Andy
>
> --- In ukha_d@y..., Quinten Uijldert <quinten.uijldert@v...>
wrote:
> > Well at least she can add Dutch to it as well :D
> >
> > Maybe she would like to know the Belgian version as well?
> >
> > "Awel zulle, mijne vliegboot zit vol met alen"
> >
> > Q.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx...]
> > > Sent: Thursday 27 September 2001 11:06
> > > To: ukha_d@y...
> > > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: What's Santa going to bring you?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I wish I'd known ... my previous employer was a translation
> company!
> > >
> > > Phil
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx...]
> > > > Sent: 27 September 2001 11:05
> > > > To: ukha_d@y...
> > > > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: What's Santa going to bring
you?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Right, I see I'm going to have to explain myself...
> > > >
> > > > It's for SWMBO!! - she's trying to gather this phrase
in as many
> > > > different
> > > > languages as possible.. - It's sort of a
"challenge" at her
> > > office to see
> > > > who can come up with the most obscure ones.
> > > >
> > > > So far, I know she has got it in:
> > > >
> > > > Latin
> > > > French
> > > > German
> > > > Spanish
> > > > Esperanto
> > > > Mandarin chinese
> > > > Indonesian
> > > > ... and at least half a dozen others which I can't
remember
> now...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Paul G.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >From: "Mark Harrison"
<Mark.Harrison@e...>
> > > > >Reply-To: ukha_d@y...
> > > > >To: <ukha_d@y...>
> > > > >Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: What's Santa going to
bring you?
> > > > >Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:06:39 +0100
> > > > >
> > > > > > Does that make sense (unlike your request ;)
)?
> > > > >
> > > > >Quinten,
> > > > >
> > > > >Actually - Paul's request makes a lot of sense, and
I'd
> > > been wondering
> > > > >the same thing myself.
> > > > >
> > > > >Mark Harrison
> > > > >Head of Systems, eKingfisher
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
>*************************************************************
> > > ***********
> > > > >****
> > > > >
> > > > >-----Original Message-----
> > > > >From: Quinten Uijldert [mailto:quinten.uijldert@xxxxxxx...]
> > > > >Sent: 26 September 2001 23:03
> > > > >To: ukha_d@y...
> > > > >Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: What's Santa going to
bring you?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >Unfortunately 'Hovercraft' is 'Hovercraft' in Dutch
(yeah I
> > > > >know, we borrow a lot from you lot), but it would
be
> > > > >something like:
> > > > >
> > > > >'Mijn hovercraft zit vol met aal'
> > > > >
> > > > >which you pronounce something like:
> > > > >
> > > > >'mine hovercraft sit vol (as in volume) met (as in
met
> > > > >office) aah-l'
> > > > >
> > > > >Does that make sense (unlike your request ;) )?
> > > > >
> > > > >On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 22:49:45 +0100
> > > > >  "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@h...>
wrote:
> > > > > > Right then!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Would either of you please care to tell me
how to say:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > "My Hovercraft is full of eels" in
Dutch?? (don't ask!)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > preferably with a phonetic pronunciation
version as
> > > > > > well...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Paul G.
> > > > >
> > > > >
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